Paul weissbach



Dec. 13, 1927.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PAUL WEISSBAGH, OF GORNAU IM\ERZGEBIRGE, GERMANY.

rnocnss or MAKING s'rocxmes.

Application filed April 21, 1924, Serial No.

socks or stockings having a French heel su h as described in U. S. Patent 1,404,702. According to the known method of manufacturing socks or stockings the heel portions were made by widening a plurality of loops on either side of the fabric and narrowing only the marginal loops of the thus formed heel portions necessary to produce the heel rounding. Heel portion made in this manner have the draw-back that they .do not properly fit the wearers heel and the formation of folds cannot be prevented. I

It is the object of the invention to overcome this difliculty and provide a method for knitting socks or stockings the French heels of which will be made in a continuous operation and in such a manner that the heel portions will form a real cap and therefore properly fit the heel of the wearers foot.

In order to more fully explain the im provements provided by my present invention I will now describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawing in which I have illustrated one embodiment of my invention by way of example. Fig. 1 illus- 0 trates in a diagrammatical' manner a part of a stocking manufactured in accordance with my invention and Fig. 2 shows the same stocking in the finished conditionpwith the edges of the fabric combined by sewing.

In carrying my present invention into effect I begin as usual in knitting socks or stockings with the leg of the fabric after finishing of which I allot, by the use of two 707,939, and in France November 23, 1923.

covering needle beds which are shifted at each movement through one needle space during the widening operation and by the use of guide stops which are shifted through two needle spaces at alternatemovements of the shifting mechanism, a plurality of loops on either side of the fabric for the formation of the heel portions. In continuing the knitting operation the courses of loops are knitted to extend over the whole width of the fabric and the heel portions are formed I by continuously transferring the loops disposed within the heel portions a, a and Z2, 6 and previously alloted to the formation of the latter, laterally to other needles until the required width of the fabric is obtained. At this time the narrowing begins in the portions 0, c, d, d to form the heel cap necessary to obtain the required French heel. When the portions of the heel cap are finished the narrowing is stopped and at the same time a number of needles on either side are cut out so that the further knitting is efflected in the width, e, f of the foot portion on y.

What I claim is:

The method of manufacturing socks and stockings having French heels consisting in widening the fabric after the leg portion is finished, stopping the widening of the heel,

portions at the beginning of the heel cap, narrowing the heel portions until the heel cap is finished, cutting out a number of needles on either side of the fabric and finishing the sock or stocking by knitting in the width of the foot portion.

PAUL WEISSBAOH. 

